I don't know how I'll get along without it when I go to town next month." "Don't speak of your going away tonight," begged Diana.

"I don't want to think of it, it makes me so miserable, and I do want to have a good time this evening.

What are you going to recite, Anne?
And are you nervous ?" "Not a bit.

I've recited so often in public I don't mind at all now.
I've decided to give 'The Maiden's Vow.' It's so pathetic.

Laura Spencer is going to give a comic recitation, but I'd rather make people cry than laugh." "What will you recite if they encore you ?" "They won't dream of encoring me," scoffed Anne, who was not without her own secret hopes that they would, and already visioned herself telling Matthew all about it at the next morning's breakfast table.